Past Events

The Movement and the Middle East offers the first assessment of the controversial and ultimately debilitating role of the Arab-Israeli conflict among left-wing activists during a turbulent period of American history. Michael R. Fischbach shows how, as the 1970s wore on, the cleavages emerging within the American Left widened, weakening the Movement and leaving a lasting impact that still affects progressive American politics today.

Palestinian refugees’ experience of protracted displacement is among the lengthiest in history. Based on extensive archival and ethnographic field research, Ilana Feldman’s new book provides a comprehensive account of the Palestinian refugee experience living with humanitarian assistance in many spaces and across multiple generations.

Independent journalist David Sheen sheds light on the rehabilitation of the most reactionary American-born rabbis by the Netanyahu Likud Party and their decades-long efforts to turn all of Israel*Palestine (and territories beyond) into a single racially pure religious state.

Collector and scholar Dr. Edmund Ghareeb discusses the little known history of Arabic language books published in the United States, including books by early Arab-American women writers and known luminaries like Khalil Gibran Khalil.

On Panel I of the annual conference Dr. Randa Farah, Dr. Osamah Khalil, Max Blumenthal, and Dr. Elizabeth Campbell discuss the following topics: liquidating Right of Return, UNRWA, US and Israeli Policies .

Palestinian-American poet and environmental scholar Sharif Elmusa, and activist artist Susan Smith present an intersectional multimedia event that includes readings of poetry of and about the refugee experience from different world-regions with an exhibition of recent artwork.